Woooo Fantastic!! magical expressions… these really tell the story! you have the skills my friend. I like them all but would probably go foooor theee mmmm I dont know, the orc shouting at the fairy… it’s a classic!

Did you get a hard time about your last name in school?.. I did, he he

My first reaction would be to not do so and not loose a great variaty of detail you have worked on.

But as I look at your selection and how it looks… I have to admit that the new composition is very impressive. It tells the story and looses nothing from the action. All that said the composition looks great.
I really don’t know. Your choice.

I would like to offer an idea though: there is little diffrence between the foreground good guy and the background bad guy (Ok I could have found a better way to put it… sorry). Would it be a good idea to give the one in the back a red aura or orb around him? And to have him himself in the tints?
Like then you could add in flakes of red rust to parts of the chain which would personalise the chains related to him/it, as well as help blend the new introduced colour to the whole.

What ever you do… including leaving everything as it is and saying this is my final piece I am cool with it. They are fantastic works.

Having looked at your latest pic I would definitly do something about the sword. The way it is cropped now is way to phallic. Perhaps extend the angels left arm along the bottom of the composition for framing. then either remove the sword (which I don’t think you need thematically, since you are portraying an emotional conflict rather than a physical one) or move it to the side. As it is now it is an eye trap.

As far as the coloring goes While I like the color scheme, I feel the blues are to calming for the scene, perhaps some more aggressive colors? Try making the lefthand side (the evil side) more angry. Possibly sme deep reds or purples. I like the blues for the angel though.

Wow, your composition for the last image you posted is excellent. I just started reading your thread today and looking at the progress. That girls face is just filled with so much anguish, you can really feel as though you know this chic is just in a world of hurt. Oh and I do like the way it is cropped as well. Cant wait to see the finished piece. Beautiful work.

I think this new angle is good and the way you have cropped it is good also. I think you should keep this new angle and just continue to render. The dark areas make it hard to see the characters but I know your not done so keep it up.

hmmmm, the new layout looks a bit too radically cropped for me at the moment. pov well chosen, but i’d like to quote miles davis here: Music lives trought the breaks betweenthe notes"
it is very compact at the moment, and looses trough that a bit of “highlighted” elements, everthing has hard contrasts wich makes it somehow overbusy. hope you get me… (despite my “Yoda-English”), of course, it’s just my taste and my own personal view… keep it up mate,
keep on rockin!